The 2021 EPS Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Prize was awarded to

Albert-László Barabási and Angelo Vulpiani.   ---The next prize award (and its corresponding call for nominations) will take place in 2023.

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Albert-László Barabási (Northeastern University and Harvard Medical School, Boston & Central European University, Budapest)

is honored "for his pioneering contributions to the development of complex network science, in particular for his seminal work on scale-free networks, the preferential attachment model, error and attack tolerance in complex networks, controllability of complex networks, the physics of social ties, communities, and human mobility patterns, genetic, metabolic, and biochemical networks, as well as applications in network biology and network medicine".

Angelo Vulpiani (Sapienza University, Rome)

is honored "for his seminal contributions to statistical and nonlinear physics, touching fundamentally important issues in dynamical systems theory and statistical mechanics, including the mechanism of stochastic resonance, multifractality of invariant sets of dynamical systems, the dynamics and multifractal properties of turbulent flows, chaos in Hamiltonian systems, and the limits of predictability in complex systems".

The 2021 EPS-SNPD Early Career Prize was awarded to Federico Battiston and Caterina De Bacco.

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Federico Battiston (Central European University, Vienna)

is honored "for his outstanding work on nonlinear dynamics and emergent collective phenomena in multilayer and higher-order networks, including diffusion, synchronization, social and evolutionary processes".

Caterina De Bacco (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tuebingen)

is honored "for her outstanding work on statistical physics of random walkers on random graphs, stochastic search processes,  routing optimization on networks and effective algorithms for community detection".

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